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Show The Senatorial Question. 4,Truth, a Salt Lake City publication, publica-tion, Is authority for the statement that' Senator Jvearits Is coming home tjo t!ikc''a hand in the election or a U. S, Senator, that there Is"' nil understanding under-standing between him and 1'erry Heath,, ami that ho will use his In-lluencc- to hecuro the election of Heath to tho Senate; that the obstacle hi tho way is. Heed Stnoot; that tho Nalimial'commlttee has been appeak'd S to use' 'Its hilluenco on President Joseph F. Smith, to get him o call mp'qt jdj?. Vailing In this they will bring pthgv Influences to bear and if unsuccessful they will call .In the Ministerial Association, and through them the religious and patriotic societies so-cieties of tho country, and they will make It very Interesting for Mr. Stnoot when he presents himself at the bar of the Senate, by confronting him with petitions signed by more or less than 10,000,000 people, asking that he be deli led a seat. j, "We do not know Just how much truth there Is in the above surmise but it has been evident for some time that there is a strong opposition to Smoot, not justified altogether by the fact that he holds an ccleslastlcal posit (on. Some time ago a certain paper published two or three pages of comments taken from eastern papers opposing Smoot's election. It now developes that the question was called to the attention of the eastern press and it was asked to comment on tho election of a Mormon Apostle to the Senate and send marked copies to the paper mentioned for publication. The object, of course, was to Impress the membeis of the legislature that that the country would not tolerate Smoot in the Senate. We do not believe be-lieve tlie members of the legislature will be inlluenccd by what the eastern picss may say when tlie material is prepared for it in Salt take City. We have no special choice for the Senate but would oppose any man who came here with the idea In his mind that all he had to do was to tody to the presidency of the church and he could secure any political olllce he might desire. IkoTrumbo had that idea some time ago, and later Tom Fitch got imbued with it, and now-well now-well If Perry S. Heath has any such idea the sooner he gets lid of It the better he will be off. They should understand that the president of the church does not carry the senatorshlp or any other state olllce around in Ills vest pocket, no matter if some one has given them that Impression. Furthermore, Further-more, If Senator Kcarns has entered Into any such arrangement as that outlined above, his chances for re-election wont be woitli a last year's birds nest. |